The NYT has an interesting article on sagging pants and laws prohibiting them. While baggy clothing is still the primary trend in urban clothing, I was under the impression that exaggeratedly sagging pants were on the way out. I’ll see the occasional very low hanging pair of pants like I’ll see the occasional club kid, but it’s not ubiquitous.

While the article dwells on the racial implications of banning this style of dress, it also interestingly notes that many of the people proposing the ban are black and that the bans reflect generational differences. Have these people learned nothing from Footloose? You can’t win, folks.